Timely diagnosis and treatment of sleep apnea reduce cardiovascular sequelae in patients with myocardial infarction.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The present study aimed to test if the temporal sequence between sleep apnea (SA) diagnosis and incident myocardial infarction (MI) was associated with the long-term mortality and cardiovascular event in a community-based cohort.

Methods

We retrieved data from 9,453 incident MI patients between Jan. 1st 2000 and Dec. 31st 2012 from the Taiwan National Health Insurance Research Database. The study subjects included 207 MI patients with SA (SA-MI), further stratified into 110 with pre-existing SA before MI (SA-bMI) and 96 diagnosed with SA after MI (SA-pMI). The median follow-up period was 4.2 years. Propensity-score-matched controls were selected from 9,246 non-SA MI patients (non-SA-MI). The association of SA and outcomes including all-cause mortality and major ad

SUBMITTER: Lin MT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6066237 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature